active politics. Despite his linguistic identity Gummerus went on to criticize Sweden, attacking the Blue Book of former Swedish foreign minister Johannes Hellner, which claimed that Sweden had only been interested in cultivating Finland as a good neighbour in the Åland crisis. Gummerus argued that, whilst this may have been the case, Swedish attitudes towards the newly independent country where such that a state of mistrust and suspicion was engendered between the two countries. Bibliography Der römische Gutsbetrieb (1905) Die Fonden der Kolonnen (1908) Aktiva kampår (1925) Jägare och aktivister (1927) References 1877 births 1948 deaths Swedish-speaking Finns Patriotic People's Movement (Finland) politicians Finnish diplomats Finnish classical scholars Historians of ancient Rome Classical scholars of the University of Helsinki Finnish fascists